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Last night Marvin said that there were two other officers: Logan P. Bullitt '41, and Joseph A. Hartman '41. Bullitt, however, denied that he was even a member of the Council, and Hartman said, "Who, me? "I concentrate in Economics...
...White House, the White Book was described as sheer propaganda, to be taken not with one or two, but with three grains of salt. "With even more salt," echoed Mr. Bullitt, before leaving by Clipper for France. Said Count Potocki in Washington: "I have never had any conversations with Ambassador Bullitt on America's participation in the war." Said Secretary of State Hull: "I may say most emphatically that neither I nor any of my associates in the Department of State have ever heard of any such conversations as those alleged, nor do we give them the slightest credence...
...they purported to be memoranda from Polish diplomats (Count Jerzy Potocki, Ambassador to the U. S.; Jules Lukasiewicz, Ambassador to France; Count Edward Raczynski. Ambassador in London; Trade Councilor Jan Wszelaki) to their chief, Mr. Beck. They reported conversations held with U. S. Ambassador to France William Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph Kennedy. Of the conversations the documents reported...
...That Mr. Bullitt nursed a "strong hatred about Germany and Chancellor Hitler"; that Mr. Bullitt believed the U. S., France and England "must heavily arm in order to be able to oppose German power," that the U. S. would "undoubtedly" participate in a war to force the capitulation of Germany ("but only after England and France had first stirred themselves"), and was (in November 1938) already "in a psychosis similar to that existing before America's declaration of war on Germany...
Neither the President nor Secretary Hull said in so many words that they were a fraud. They echoed familiar and fre quent public utterances of Francophile Bill Bullitt. On the sore point, the declaration that the U. S. would eventually go to war, they did not indicate that Mr. Bullitt had said much if anything more than most U. S. citizens were saying a few months...